Week 9 Communications

TASK
I have entered Twenty 20 Cricket, as my topic of interest. It came up with 234,000 results. There are many different ones relating to womens cricket, the current IPL cricket matches, how it will change the game of cricket in the future.

The information that I read was interesting and some of the suggestions were not only funny but practical as well. It has people suggesting that other countries should try and have their version of the IPL. Though this is the first time a country has run an international team Twenty20, it definately has brought alot of attention to a sport that was becoming less entertaining and losing all of the well known athletes of the game.

Potential Benefits

Podcasts for university students is very helpful as it offers different ways to learn, through visual, audio and reading through topics. This helps most poeple who have different learning styles and need the audio to help them. Podcasts are also a good way of showing information when doing presentations. All video shots or pictures are easily shown through a podcast.

Summary

It is interesting to see the different groups that are accessible on the net that all relate to the same topic. Knowing this will come in handy when doing assignments and wanting to see if anyone else has suggestions on the same topics. It will open my understanding of the topic and may help me more. Though I never really had an understanding of Podcasts, it was interesting to understand how they can help in assessments.

Reading 1

Spam; This site explains what a spam is, how you can get it and how to prevent your computer from catching one. If you are unfortunate and do happen to get a spam on the computer this site explains the process of how to get rid of it. It is an interesting site and very detailed.

Week 8 Presentation Skills

"Top 5" List of strategies

1. Keep slides simple, less is more.

2. Do not include a huge amount of information on the slides.

3. Take your time talking, poeple will understand you more if they hear what you are saying.

4. To have fun, you will be more enojoyed if your having fun.

5. When asked a question, repeat it and do your best to answer it, dont go on with the answer if your not sure.

SUMMARY

Power Point presentation are widely used in the professional world. It is the easiest way to present information to a group of people. Knowing how to use power point, is a major advantage. I understand that less is more and that the you interact the group, in whom you are presenting the information to, the more that they will remember.

Though it is easy to go overboard with the amount of information that is being presented, if I only put the major points on it, more will be remembered. I will be able to use the information that was given today, to present a Power Point presenation what will be remembered.

Week 7 EndNote Libraries

Summary

I found that todays topic, at first, was a little difficult to understand. Though as the Lecture went on and it was used in a few different examples, it was getting clearer. Though EndNote is obviously a program that isn't going to be easy to use the first time, I have an understanding on how it works, and the time massive time saver it.

Though it is a program that is using the data, that I put in it, it may not always be done correctly. I still need to know how to write references and the different ways of doing them. This way if EndNote misses out information that I haven't put in, I can pick up on this.

Overall, this Database is going to be very useful to me over the next few years at Uni.